all the other 'places' I live

Rather than repeating myself in several spots, I offer you the links... Livejournal, http://brantles.livejournal.com/ , Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/profiles/brantles . There is enough out there for you to get an idea of where I'm coming from. I plan on keeping this blog fairly personal and eventually only open to a few people of my choosing. For the time being, brantles.blogspot.com is not restricted.
So, why come here? I keep up with Web services and report my opinions on them. I am a librarian and I find a lot of interesting information I pass along.

latest meanderings

What a lame title for a post.
I've been freaking out about the huge amount of free (and pay) video available from a lot of different Web sites. youtube.com/, ess.tv/, channel101.com/ "The unavoidable future of entertainment" thelonelyisland, and sooo many others not to mention video.google.com
To top it off I saw this real UIC presentation in realmedia of Burks Oakley, an educational technology professor from UIUC about podcasts, and then Helen gave this cool presentation about captivate and camtasia (I prefer Camtasia thus far) We are kind ofg chomping at the bit here to get going with online tutorials for library instruction.
anyway, I want to investigate technorati tags and del.icio.us more as well. check burns podcast on web2 technologies. (burnso2.blogspot.com) I think.

first silly call to audioblogger from the ELL

search these keywords!

Things to look at now:
newsbot
a9
keyhole,
googlegrid,
Things to look fo in the FUTURE
newsbotster,
googlezon
social recommendation engine
epic - evolving personalized information construct

I just viewed this from a listserve...

An eight minute flash video about the history of media told from the year 2015.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic

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visual learning

I don't understand exactly what that means. I guess that is because I am linear verbal learner.

wetlands

Even though I live in the middle of a huge city surrouded by development for miles and miles, http://tinyurl.com/deh5h I am often reminded that I am in the middle of wetlands. Yesterday I was walking to work and I saw hordes of gnats massing over the soaked grass. There were about half a dozen dragonflies dive bombing in and out of the cloud sucking the gnats up like a dyson vaccuum cleaner.

Seven months later I am back to post on blogspot again. I just leared of this "Iamalibrarian.com" project. My friend Amy at American Libraries told me about it. It is too late to participate, but Maybe I can get in. Ooooh i hope so!